When enough item scans have passed quality control checks to warrant an upload of materials to Storage (i.e. a "batch"), the metadata corresponding to the items to be uploaded is copied out of the original set of metadata and pasted into a new Excel file (.xlsx) by Digital Services. The naming convention for this file is collectionNumber.n.xlsx, where "n" is the numerical value of the batch. Ex: u0008_0000001.2.xlsx = the metadata for the second batch of items for collection u0008_0000001.

Digital Services will note - in the original collection metadata Excel file - which items correspond to this batch. This shall be done via entering the information into a column in the Excel version of the collection metadata. In this fashion, we keep track of which batch we're on.

This column and it's cells must be excluded from any subsequent text files that are generated for MODS or Storage purposes). In this fashion, we keep track of which batch we're on.

This subset of the collection metadata is then exported from Excel as a tab delimited Unicode .txt file and is placed in the appropriate folder in s:\Digital Projects\Digital_Coll_Complete by Digital Services.

The .xlsx version of this metadata subset is placed into S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\collectionInfo\forMDlib\needsRemediation by Digital Services. Metadata Services applies the same steps as for single batch collections.

FOR ONGOING or LARGE COLLECTIONS

The following needs remediation: we are using tab-delimited UTF-8 text, not CSV. As each chunk of content is digitized, the tab containing the metadata will be pulled out of the main spreadsheet into a separate Excel file, numbered with the batch number (collnum.1.xlsx, collnum.2.xslx, etc.) and that will be deposited for remediation, and exported for MODS creation and upload for storage. The original reference metadata will contain an extra column for notation of which batch each segment of metadata belongs to.

This means that in Storage_Excel, we will wind up with multiple spreadsheets for each of the large or ongoing collections. This will also be the case in the archive. If there *is* a collnum.2.xlsx or collnum.2.txt, and there is a collnum.xlsx or collnum.txt, we will assume that the latter is the first segment of metadata for the collection. That is to say, it *is* the collnum.1.xlsx or collnum.1.txt file.